Nearly one of every three people in the world is overweight or obese. To bring that rate down, public health officials are pushing for taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages – guided by emerging evidence that higher prices translate into few purchases of the nutrition-poor drinks. Questions remain, though, about whether officials can tax themselves out of the overweight and obesity crisis, or other strategies should be prioritized.

Join us on February 15 at 11:30 a.m. ET. for a 30-minute conversation. We'll be joined by Dr. Lisa Powell, the division director of health policy and administration in the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health, and Dr. Laura Cornelsen, an assistant professor in public health economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The discussion will be moderated by Andrew Green, Malnutrition Deeply's managing editor.

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